Maurice Canning Wilks a landscape and portrait painter born in Belfast, his father was a linen designer. Educated at Malone Public School and then at Belfast College of Art. When Wilks is nineteen, he exhibits for the first time at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Wilks subsequently went on to exhibit his work in London, Montreal, Boston, and Toronto, many of which were solo exhibitions. Later in his life, he is elected an associate member of the RHA and a full member of the Royal Ulster Academy. Towards the later years of his life, Wilks had a studio in Dublin, which inspired him to paint many everyday scenes of Dublin. His belief was, ‘hard work and regular hours’. Today we can see his artwork in the Ulster Museum, the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, and many others.

Wilks is very much inspired by the work of James Humbert Craig and his own portrait of Craig hangs in Bangor Town Hall.

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